grisamber

English

Etymology

See ambergris.

Noun

grisamber (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) ambergris
    1671, John Milton, “Book the Second”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 340–344 and 348–349, page 46:
    With diſhes pill'd, and meats of nobleſt ſort / And ſavor, Beaſts of chase, or Fowl of game, / In paſtry built, or from the ſpit, or boyl'd / Griſ-amber-ſtream'd; all Fiſh from Sea or Shore, / […] Alas how ſimple, to theſe Cates compar'd / Was the crude Apple that diverted Eve!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grisamber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

(Paradise Regained, II.440-49)

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